Hyperdimension Neptunia is owned by Compile Heart, Idea Factory, Sega and whomever else worked on it.

To Lord of Chaos: Cyberpunk is typically a dystopian setting. For some good examples watch Robocop or the original Bubblegum Crisis.

This is a short chapter, but we're still in Lastation.

Chapter 30

"How utterly despicable," Black Void muttered as she was engulfed in black light and returned to her human form. All around her were bodies of gang members, most were dead, but some were still alive, even if just barely. "Hmm?" Noire narrowed her eyes as she saw one with a purple Mohawk. "I know you." She walked over to him and kicked him, flipping him over and revealing his augmented body. "Didn't I kill you a month ago?"

"You've killed me three times." The man groaned at her before smirking. "Luckily for me there was enough of me to salvage for parts."

Noire scoffed at him. "Tell me then, who's your backer?" She asked and crouched down. The redheaded CPU narrowed her eyes as his eyes darted between her legs. "Yes, I wear red panties," she rolled her eyes and pinched his nose and lifted him up while she stood up. "Talk. Now."

"I dnno." The man spoke, his voice coming out weird. "I jus wk up dis ay!"

Noire narrowed her eyes and summoned a sword and put it between his legs. "Just so you know, this is a divine blade that can cut through a progbot without any resistance. What will it do to you?"

"I swer! Duno! Wk up dis ay!"

Noire narrowed her eyes at him and threw him over her shoulder and into an exposed trash can. "What the hell is going on anyway?" It made no sense to her why someone would bring a no-name thug back from the brink of death. "Someone has to be organizing these gangs."

"Lady Noire." A screen opened up and Noire turned her head to see who was calling her. "I found Lady Uni. She's with someone."

"Really?" Noire raised an eyebrow. "Might be interesting to see how my dear little sister is doing. Where is she?"

"Three blocks to the North from your current position, she's eating dinner with a girl."

"I see," Noire nodded and walked in that direction. "Steamax, make sure to get a cleanup crew out here, there's some discarded tech that needs to be recycled."

"Of course." Steamax replied as the communication screen cut off.

Looking back at the gangs, Noire narrowed her eyes and walked off in a huff.

(-)

A few minutes later...

K-Sha sighed as she finished eating her food. "Sorry for eating so much."

Uni rolled her eyes. "I can't feed you every day, but a meal isn't so bad." She looked at the stack of plates on the table, "even if you must have doubled your weight from that."

"Or more." K-Sha admitted, blushing. "I... I haven't eaten in a few days."

"Yeah, I can imagine how bad that was for you." Uni sighed and gave K-Sha an amused smirk. "Well that..."

There was a dinging at the door and a hush came over the diner as things seemed to stop and tension filled the air even as someone dropped a plate to the floor, where it shattered. Both Uni and K-Sha turned to look at who just entered and both of them stared in shock as they saw who it was...

...Long red hair done up in twin pigtails, striking red eyes, fair skin, an expression that told no one anything, a red over-vest with a white mini-skirt under it, garter belts that hooked down to white, knee-high boots, bare shoulders though she was wearing bridal gauntlets over her arms...

"...CPU Black Void?" K-Sha whispered, her eyes wide as she fumbled for her gun but was stopped by Uni, who shook her head and stood up. "Uni?"

"Just stay calm, she's here for me." Uni said and walked over to Noire. "...What do you want?"

Noire narrowed her eyes slightly. "Is that really any way to talk to me?" She asked and looked at K-Sha and then back at Uni. "Friend of yours?"

"No." Uni answered immediately. "She's just a beggar I took pity on."

"...You're lying." Noire narrowed her eyes and looked at the stack of plates around K-Sha. "Whatever, let's go." She turned and left with Uni shooting K-Sha an apologetic look and following after Noire.

Everyone in the diner sighed in relief. While Black Void was hard to understand, at least she didn't come there to cause them problems. Some of the people had recognized Uni as the CPU Candidate of Lastation, but they also knew that she only caused problems for criminals and those who were causing others trouble.

(-)

The two Lastation sisters walked in silence for several blocks. Thankfully they weren't bothered by anyone. Eventually Noire stopped, as did Uni. "What did I tell you about wanting friends, Uni?"

"...Friends are meaningless, bonds are easily broken, trust only ends with the back of your skull blown open." Uni replied to her. "Listen, Noire, I get it, the only thing that matters is power to you." She turned and crossed her arms in annoyance while Noire turned her head to give Uni a sideways glance and sighed in annoyance.

"Really? Because it seems to me that you were trying to be friends with her." Noire's voice had a hint of annoyance in it. "Perhaps I should show you how easily those bonds are broken?"

"Leave her alone!" Uni turned and glared at Noire. "Just because you're a loner who couldn't make a friend before you became a Void doesn't mean that I want to be one!"

Noire sighed softly. "Go ahead, make friends, but it won't do you any good in the end. When you're at your weakest, when everything goes against you, when you need help the most," she turned and huffed, "that's when you'll find out how shallow and selfish humans are."

"So why do you trust Kei and the others then?"

Noire was silent for a little bit. "Who says I trust them? They're useful for things."

"They're using you." Uni pointed out, getting a nod from Noire. "And you're okay with that?"

"If they stop being useful to me, I'll eliminate them." Noire told her. "Besides, the people need them anyway."

"...I thought you didn't care about people."

Noire scoffed at her. "I'm a Void, the only thing that matters is power. Now let's go home before I get mad." She turned and stormed off, with Uni watching after her.

"...You're wrong, sis." Uni whispered softly, "I can tell... There's still good in you."

There just had to be, Uni knew it.

At least, that's what Uni hoped for at any rate. The thought of her sister giving into being a Void completely was just too painful to think about.

(-)

Elsewhere...

Sitting in his skyrise, Mr. Badd pulled out a cigar and after lighting it up, he took some puffs from it and turned on the news. "Let's see..."

"This is Abnes, channel 6 reporter, with the news." A young woman with blonde hair and a dark-colored dress looked at the camera. "Our brave leader, CPU Black Void swiftly put another bunch of vile criminal down, protecting the peace and prosperity of Lastation."

Mr. Badd rolled his eyes as he listened to the reports. "This will be useful for her." Being in charge of media, he knew that statements like these would appease a part of population, but also would agitate other groups of citizens even more. "The armed uprisings won't just disappear no matter how hard you try to bludgeon those people down, Black Void."

With the miserable conditions of life for the poorest of people, combined with an ever-growing military industrial complex and the outright corruption in Lastation created a fertile environment for numerous hostile groups. While Anonydeath notified them that such obvious ass-kissing from the news toward Black Void often made people more cautious and even more paranoid.

All in all, it was a very good foundation for revolution.

Sure, the CPU remained in charge, but at the end of the day, she was a lone individual and one who could be forced to meet the combined forces of well-trained and well-armed combatants and if the wrath of population continued to grow, she would face them and she would be all alone when she did so. "Even a CPU needs people to survive, Black Void. You really shouldn't forget about that…"

Mr. Badd knew that he, Kei, Anonydeath, Azna=Leb, and Singe were needed to keep Lastation's working properly regardless of what Black Void, who was obsessed with power and order, thought about it.

Things would be interesting moving forward.

To be continued...

Gotta thank my beta reader (the one who gave me the idea for the tentacle food in Leanbox) for his help on this part of the story. I enjoy Cyberpunk, but I'm not the best at writing it.